Yanexi Enriquez

Yanexi is a London-based actor and dancer, who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2020.

Yanexi has been seen in Casualty and recently guest led on FBI: International for CBS. She has just completed photography on a guest role in Twenty Twenty Six for the BBC, will also recur in a major new series for UKTV, and has numerous short film credits.

Yanexi led in the National Theatre’s production of Ballet Shoes, at the Olivier. The show triumphantly opened to wonderful reviews across the board. Recent stage work includes Romans at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Sam Prichard, My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar at Brixton House Theatre, which she reprised in spring 2026, Atonement at Chichester, alongside Miriam Petche, and leading in Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky at the Southwark Playhouse.

 

 

 

 

 

20,000 Streets Under The Sky

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky review – the bell tolls for Patrick Hamilton’s lost Londoners – The Guardian

“Enriquez deftly suggests Jenny’s turmoil”

 REVIEW: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky at Southwark Playhouse 10 – 17 October 2026 –London Pub Theatres

“Yanexi Enriquez dazzles as Jenny Maple… She plays the role with seductive, persuasive charm.”

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky – TimeOut

“Enriquez is more often the one to keep us entertained…occasionally vulnerable, sometimes manipulative but wholly believable characterisation.”

Review: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky @Southwark Playhouse – Roland Cat

“Occasionally you see a production where one performer simply pops out from an already strong ensemble, and Enriquez does exactly that. She plays the role beautifully — funny, complicated, vulnerable, drunk, foolish and completely compelling. She was the standout performance for me from a strong pack.”

TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY. – Notes on Films and Culture

“Yanexi Enriquez and Jordan Scowen stand out even amidst this wonderful cast.”

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky at Southwark Playhouse Borough – review – What’s On Stage

“Enriquez probably makes the strongest impression, charting with wide-eyed defensiveness and an engaging sense of abandon

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Southwark Playhouse Borough review – short, sharp and a bit superficial – The Arts Desk

“The acting is excellent: Yanexi Enriquez’s Jenny and Jordan Scowen’s Bob… convincingly perform the passions and contradictions of their characters.”

MUINPE

The remount of My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar is at Brixton House until 3 May!

★★★★★

“I can’t find any faults with My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar“
Theatre & Tonic

★★★★

“A seamless ensemble”

Theatre News

★★★★

“A rewarding, enlightening and entertaining show”

London Pub Theatres

Romans

Yanexi opens in Romans at the Almeida.

★★★★★ Broadway World – ‘Enriquez impresses throughout with her comedic chops’

★★★★ All That Dazzles – ‘Yanexi Enriquez is delightfully cutting’

★★★★ Guardian

★★★ Everything Theatre – ‘Yanexi Enriquez excels with her humour and comic wit’

The Times – ‘awash with outstanding actors’

Ballet Shoes

Yanexi leads in Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre until Feb.

★★★★★

Telegraph – ‘A playful, graceful adaptation – and a palpable hit’

‘Enriquez (almost) steals the show’

WhatsOnStage – ‘springs from page to stage with panache’

Standard – ‘superlative adaptation never puts a foot wrong’

Independent – ‘If you see one show this
Christmas season, make it this’

i – ‘a real Christmas cracker’

★★★★

Times – ‘The National at its best’, ‘Yanexi Enriquez always holds our attention’

 

 

Yanexi leads as ‘Sindy-Ella’ in Ola Ince’s South London retelling of Cinderella at Brixton House – trailer for the production here

The Invincibles

The Stage – ★★★★
Everything Theatre – ‘the brilliant Yanexi Enriquez’
Hornchurch Life – ‘amazing cast’
The Havering Daily

My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar

Yanexi leads in My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar at Brixton House, a high-stakes heist, highlighting history, identity and belonging in the Latinx community in South London, which has opened to great reception.

Reviews:

Morning Star – 5* – ‘the outstanding Yanexi Enriquez’

ReviewsHub – 4*

The Stage – 3*